THE TABLET A W e e k l y N ew s p a p e r a n d . R e v i e w DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 156. No. 4,724. L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r 22, 1930.
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New s and No t e s ...................665 Brazil’s Deliverance . . . 669 Non-Provicled Schools . . . 670 “ For Ourselves ” ................. 670 R e v i e w s :
Mr. Trevelyan’s “ Blen
heim ”
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Captain Knox, Pragmatist 672 Outstanding Novels ... 673 From Spinoza to Sidgwiclc 673 Patmos ............................ 673 New Books and Music . . . 674 Books Received ................. 675 A Glimpse ............................ 676
C O N T E N T S
A Somers Town Centenary 676 Mr. Scullin with the
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Catenians ............................ 677 The Catholic Council for
International Relations . . . 678 Ob it u a r y .............................. 678 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 681 Ten Years’ Progress at
Southall ............................ 683 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o ............................ 683 ET CiETERA...............................684
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Catholic Education Notes . .. 685 Coming E vents ...................6 86 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 686 L etters to the Ed it o r :
The Catholic Action
Society ............................ 687 Dr. Coulton and The Tablet 687 Or b is T errarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 687 Ireland ............................ 688 Argentina ............................ 688 Austria ............................ 689 China ............................ 689
Or b is Terrarum
Danzig
France
Germany
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Indo-Cliina . .. ............... 690 I t a l y .............. ............... 690 Luxembourg ............... 690 Malta ............... 690 Poland ............... 690 South Africa ................69 0 Spain ................690 U.S.A. ............... 690 Yugoslavia ............... 690 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 692 Ch e s s ............... ............... 692
NOTANDA The revised Education Bill. A re-affirmation o f policy by the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops o f England and Wales (p. 670).
Brazil. H ow Catholics have played their part in regaining Brazil fo r the Brazilians (p. 669).
Mr. Belden again. His criticism o f the Papacy criticized by a Tablet Note-writer (p. 668).
“ Wars o f Religion ” in Liverpool. Dr. David’s responsibility fo r a painful situation (p. 666).
Bigamy as a joke. Mr. Justice Hawke’s amazing remarks at H ereford Assizes. A Tablet plea fo r three little children (p. 666).
Spain in reality and Spain “ in the news.” An authoritative description o f last week-end in Madrid (p. 667).
Dr. G. G. Coulton’s ten guineas fo r Liverpool’s Catholic Cathedral (p. 687).
Honoured guests from overseas. Mr. Scullin, Mr. McGilligan, and other delegates to the Imperial Conference, entertained by their fellow-Catholics in London (pp. 677-8).
The visions in the Rue du Bac. A note fo r the centenary o f the revelation o f the Miraculous Medal (p. 684).
NEWS AND NOTES A T Round Table Conferences, as at many other conferences where the tables are square or oblong or of gridiron pattern, the delegates rightly begin by enouncing with emphasis the policies which it is their duty to defend and to promote. As the days pass, the sharpest edges are often worn off these preliminary defiances ; and mutual accommodations bring the Conference nearer to a worthwhile measure of agreement. Therefore it is unhelpful when a newspaper makes a great deal of the first day’s speeches. Litera scripta manet. The more we put into cold print of the uncompromising
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declarations made at the beginning of a Round Table Conference, the more difficulties we are making for delegates of broad mind. To give way to one another at all is an admission that they were wrong in their initial intransigence ; and no public man is very happy when he is in this case. Not only does he smart a little in his own pride, but he has to put up with taunts from poor creatures who confuse obstinacy with admirable consistency. Because these are The Tablet’s ideas concerning Round Table Conferences in general, we do not propose to offer detailed criticisms, week by week, of what is said and done round the Indian table in particular. We believe it will be more useful to take account only o f large phases in the deliberations, and we pray that those phases will be such as to swell the thin crescent of to-day’s hope into a full orb of concord before we are much older.
So many readers want copies of G. M. Godden’s article “ The Commercial Conscience ” that we are reprinting it, and can send out bundles of one hundred each at a nominal cost. But let nobody merely give away leaflets or slip them into envelopes. The time for action has come. Last Tuesday’s Evening Standard flaunted a big advertisement of Soviet matches with a coupon-scheme for prizes. We have examined one of the match-boxes and it is marked “ Made in U.S.S.R. Russia.” Our home match-makers make better matches than the Soviet brands. To save a few pence by buying the dumped products of sweated labour is to become implicated in Moscow’s guilt.
General Ludendorff, the neo-pagan who would have Germans hark back to the worship of Wotan and Thor, predicts that a new World-war will burst out in May, 1932. By “ World-war ” the General means only a European War, or even less ; because Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries are to be out of it. On the one side will be Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Russia and Great Britain,
